
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 29, 1994                   TAG: 9401290160
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.                                LENGTH: Short

FINAL CHARGES DROPPED IN N.J. SEXUAL ASSAULT

All charges against the last defendant awaiting trial in the 1989 Glen Ridge sexual assault case were dropped Friday after the victim's parents opposed further prosecution, officials said.

Based on the parents' wishes, Essex County Prosecutor Clifford J. Minor filed a motion for dismissal of a nine-count indictment against Richard J. Corcoran Jr., the 24-year-old son of the chief of detectives in Glen Ridge.

Judge R. Benjamin Cohen of New Jersey Superior Court granted the motion, thus freeing Corcoran of all charges that he participated in the assault on a mildly retarded 17-year-old girl with a baseball bat, stick and broom handle in March 1989.

Corcoran had been scheduled to go on trial Monday in Newark. The parents of the woman, now 22, said the trial would have a detrimental impact on her, aides to Minor said.

- The New York Times

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